What is STEAP?
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The Skilled Trade Enrollment Assistance Program (STEAP) was created to offer returning citizens training and
reinforcement before approaching the job market. STEAP is designed to proactively address all obstacles that prevent re-entry citizens from obtaining occupations in the building trades. STEAP’s training curriculum is aligned with the projections recorded by the United States Department of Labor. 
Media.
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Become an Apprentice.
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Skilled Trades Program Providing Detroiters With Labor Training.
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Skilled trade program helps build Detroit's workforce.
Read the Article featured in The Detroit News here 
Breaking down barriers: Pre-apprenticeship program works to open doors to skilled trades union jobs. Read the Article featured in Crain's Detroit here 
Detroiter Dino Vann is taking an active role in Detroit's revitalization.
Read the article featured in the Michigan Chronicle here. |
Facts.
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In September, Arne Duncan, who preceded King as U.S. Secretary of Education, called on states to invest in teachers rather than prisons. He suggested the nation could save $15 billion by finding alternatives to incarceration for non-violent offenders.
It’s been a challenge for contractors to find and hire qualified workers in the city as the “greater downtown” Detroit is in the midst of $5.4 billion development boom.
~Brian Turmail National spokes person for the Associated General Contractors of America “We have some jobs we cannot fill,” she said. “A four-year degree is perfect for some, but not for all. We need to rebrand the American dream.”
~Patti Poppe President and CEO of CMS Energy Corp. and Consumers Energy |
